Mobile tyres fitting service in Blackbird Leys Oxfordshire
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are fully inclusive, no hidden extras. We don't have
expensive tyres depots so our prices are always low.
We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
efficient and cost effective mobile tyres fitting
service for Blackbird Leys Oxfordshire. So, rather than having to
travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres fitted,
you remain at home or at work and we come to you. This
is much more convenient… and, it also greatly reduces
our operating costs so we are able to slash our selling
prices of tyres by up to 40%.
Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
We are proud of our Customer service record, and we
fully guarantee our work. Please feel free to call our
freephone telephone number if you would like personal
help and service, we are always ready and willing to
explain the choices and make sure you are happy with our
sales and service for car tyres and car batteries.
More about Blackbird Leys Oxfordshire
Blackbird Leys is one of the largest council estates
in Europe. It is located on the south-eastern outskirts
of Oxford, UK. Unusually, the area constitutes a civil
parish, which according to the 2001 census had a
population of 12,196. The parish was created in 1990.
Archeology has revealed this site as one of Oxford's
earliest settlements, dating it from between the Bronze
Age and the Iron Age. Evidence suggesting pits and
roundhouses, with remains of pottery and a cylindrical
loom weight of a kind previously known only from East
Anglia.
Modern day Blackbird Leys was built mainly in the 1960s
to meet the then pressing need for accommodation,
particularly for factory workers at the Morris Motor
Company plant in nearby Cowley.
Ethnically the population is made up principally of
Afro-Caribbeans and whites; little racial tension is
evident. Although so-called riots were reported in the
1980s and early 1990s, these were not on the scale seen
elsewhere in the UK at that time, for example in St.
Paul's, Toxteth and Brixton. The Blackbird Leys 'riots'
were not considered to be 'race riots'. They arose from
resistance to the policing of the estate.
Around this time, Blackbird Leys was famous for its joy
riding. Young men from the estate would steal fast cars
and 'display' them (with a variety of high-speed stunts)
to an audience gathered outside the estate shops (top
shops), eventually gaining worldwide media attention
(from CNN, for example). Seen as a defiant artform or
entertainment by some, and as a public nusiance by
others, various measures were brought in by the local
council to stop the displays. Police often found it
difficult to catch joy riders, whose stolen cars were
faster than the police vehicles, though eventually a
faster police car was introduced. Chicanes were built
around the shops area, and an anti-skid surface applied
to the road, making it difficult to execute handbrake
turns and other stunts. Greater Leys (the newest parts
of the Blackbird Leys estate) was specifically designed
to minimise the number of roads entering the estate,
making it easier to prevent drivers from escaping.
Blackbird Leys is reputedly one of the most deprived
estates in the country. It has major social problems.
These focus on unemployment (the rate here is 10%, which
is significantly higher than the 4% of the rest of
Oxfordshire); and on crime, in the form of drug abuse
(mainly of crack and heroin), street crime, a growing
gun culture and anti-social behaviour.
The residents have the general levels of poor health
associated with low socio-economic status, including a
significantly higher mortality rate than is seen in any
other area of Oxford.
As yet, the area remains under-resourced and subject to
tensions. Nevertheless, there has been substantial
investment in a new football stadium and leisure complex
along with the building of Oxford University's Science
Park Magdalen Centre [3] nearby and many of the area's
residents are working for regeneration and the
establishment of a sense of community.
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